6. Secure the holy trinity.
Critics, collectors, and curators, like the ones pictured above, are key to your success. Collect them all!

Carmen Herrera at work on a painting. Photo by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London.

7. If you’re a woman, be of a certain age.May this New York Times feature enlighten you on the “very small sampling of the female artists now in their 70s, 80s and 90s we should have known about decades ago.”

Guerrilla Girls, “Do Women have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?” (1989). Courtesy of glasstire.com.